Howard University College of Medicine

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How did the interview impress you?

Negatively ☹️

What was the stress level of the interview?

6 / 10

0 = Low Stress, 10 = High Stress

What are your general comments?

I've said enough

Interview questions they asked

Why medicine?

I was asked this too

What was the most interesting question?

What do you think your relationship with your patients will be like?

I was asked this too

What was the most difficult question?

What's your excuse for this particular grade?

I was asked this too

How did you prepare for the interview?

practice answering questions, read info and my application materials

What impressed you positively?

that I would be done with the interview with plenty of time to make my flight

What impressed you negatively?

pretty much everything else--I got to the office thinking I could drop my things off, visit the class, and have my interview done that morning. No one showed up in the office until well after 9 am, when they claimed the interviews started at 8:30. My open-file interview turned out to be closed, which I wouldn't have minded had I known ahead of time, but the interviewer knew nothing about me, while I was expected to know everything about the school. She flippantly says, "I haven't read your file" and sits there reading in front of me. The office lost my recommendation letters (if you've been there, this is no surprise), some of the students who talked to us complained about having to actually work when they got there (imagine that--and they want to be physicians). The only stop on the tour was the library, which the guides bragged as being state-of-the-art,then said they never used it. Such a low pass rate on the boards made me wonder what exactly they were doing around there. The woman that came by to field our questions about the curriculum looked and acted as if she would have preferred to be anywhere except there. The neighborhood wherethe school is located--watch your back!

What did you wish you had known ahead of time?

That it wasn't a good idea to walk through the neighborhood the evening before. The claim that profs take such an interest in students was a lie. That my interviewer would not answer any of my questions about the school and its programs (like the issue of some residency programs being on probation), saying simply that "that is being addressed."